The Deceptions: A Novel

Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize

An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times bestselling author Jill Bialosky

Something terrible has happened and I don’t know what to do. An unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling. Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropol...